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  • Lambert Coggins saw it, Jungle Jim saw it, Tom DeVesto photographed it, Most believe it, But no one will claim it. The campus' resident alligator glides calmly across the water as heedless WCU students play football less than 25 feet away. The gator has right to be calm-- .ie is protected by state law, (The small inset, lower right, is a blow-up of the gator portion of the larger shot,) Who gets the gator ? Found in university owned pond By JIM ROWELL Associate Editor Western Carolina University recently purchased a small tract of land adjoin ■ ing the campuso The question is now, does the alligator go with the land, Tuesday,, Lambert Coggins, an employee of the WCU maintenance department was quietly mowing the newly acquired land on which is located a U-shaped pond, Lambert was, in his words, "not real sure of what I was looking at, at first," He later reported to his fellow workers that "it was an alligator ." He had many doubters. By Wednesday, word of the alleged alligator had filtered to the ears of this writer who went armed with a photographer to verify the reptile's presence The land was first purported to belong to Stedman Mitchell, the Director of Food Services at Western. His wife, Mary Mitchell, was quick to explain two things; 1) the land (including the pond) had been sold to WCU, and 2) she was not surprised that an alligator had been reported in ine pona, "Two years ago, my husband thought he saw an alligator down there," Mrs. Mitchell said, "He went back to check it out later and it really turned out to be an alligator," It seems, as Mrs. Mitchell explained, that Freddie Vom Lehn had lost one of his pets, Freddie is the son of WCU music instructor Degar Vom Lehn, both of whom live on the hill overlooking the pond, Freddie had been trying unsuccessfully to breed some 'gators in his basement, One had escaped "That was two years ago," said Mrs,, Mitchell, "but my husband and Freddie caught him." It was a lead to the ownership of the Lambert alligator, but this writer decided he had better go and SEE the alligator in question first The pond is located less than 150- yards from the University's newly opened Fine Arts Building, an area still populated with waist-high vegetation. About one-third of the distance around the pond, and , in the area closest to the University was found the alliga- CONTINUED Page 7. . . . The Western Carolinian VOICE OF THE STUDENTS Vol, XXXVII, No. 7 Western Carolina University Thursday, September 30, 1971 Cullowhee, N.C. Wood criticized for annual Id's The University Center and Center Director Baxter Wood have been criticized recently for initiating two plans that seemingly cost students more money. First Wood was criticized for requiring stud aits to have identification cards made annually for the price of one dollar. Prior to the new plan the I.D. was made once^ the freshman year, and was good for the duration of a students' enral^ lment, The price of the card was taken from the student activities fee, Secondly, the center was criticized by several for going from 50 cents to 75 cents in the price of movies over the summvr. Wood said that the main rea= son for changing to the annual LD card was to eliminate some alumni from entering games, concerts, and other events on oldUVs. "Some of this was eliminated last year when the acti- vities card was used," he said. He contin aed to say, though, that checkers "didn't watch too closely" and some students entered only on LD.'s. "For Instance, all that was required at Asheviile to get in the game was an LD," With the new card Wood hopes to eliminate alumni and others with the old cards from getting into games and other events on campus. Wood estimated the cost of the LD. cards at between 40 and 50 cents each, including student labor, but not including full-time staff costs. Cost per Polaroid photograph runs about 25 cents per shot, Wood said, with salaries for student helpers averaging out to nearly 10 cents per card. Other expenses, such as plastic covers, lamination and computer cards comes out to just over 10 cents per card "The difference goes back into the center fund," Wood said, "which helps with the upkeep of the center. Few people realize that this building is completely self-supporting." In answer to the criticism coming for the hike in movie prices, Wood said, "Students wanted better movies. In order to get better movies, we had to pay more." He called attention to stories in the CAROLINIAN, "even and editorial or two by Ron (WILLIAMSON, editor erne ritus)" voicing the desire of students to have better movies. "I am restricted by movie companies to what I can charge per movie, per showing," Wjod said, "I have to pay Warner Brothers 55 cents per person at least for each movie I show. "For WOODSTOCK I have to pay $65 against 50% of the gate. For BUTCH CASSIDY I had to pay a minimum of $500 against 65% of the gross, I ended up having to pay $1 per person. You can't pay those kind of prices charging 50 cents." Wood ended by saying, "h the past the most I ever paid for a movie was $125." And he added that those prices were for movies "that had already been on the tube two or three times," Bomb threat ! To be stopped Baxter Wood It happened again in Scott dorm. At 4:00 a.m., Tuesday morning, more than 900 women were routed out of their rooms and across the street to Reid gym to the tune of "Please leave the building. There has been a bomb threat," But the next threat may, thankfully , be the last, Dr. Tyler Combs said yesterday that "there are ways to find out who is making the threatening calls. . .they can't WCU traffic code changed, some cases taken to Sylva Western Carolina's traffic code was changed during the 19- 71 summer. Student Government President Greg Lockamy today said he feels WCU students have been hurt by the change. "For years," Lockamy said, "people have complained that WCU did not have the authority to fine. This summer the University re-did its traffic code. . . made it a North Carolina Senate Bill, which passed and became a North Carolina statute." "The old statute," he said, "said that WCU's board of trustees had the power of establishing a system of citations... which many people did not interpret as the right to fine." Yet under the old code, the> did fine $10 to anyone operating a vehicle under the influence of alcohol or drugs. Lockamy said that, with the new code, "students were hurt in one area. Now all violations of this type will be han^ died at the Sylva JaU." All persons apprehended under the new code will be given a breathalizer test and booked by the North Carolina State Highway Patrol, VU olators will be punishable by the same penalty as if they were committed on the open highway. 'Survival of Man' topic of speech by Rollman Heinz W, Rollman will speak on the "Survival of Man and the Distribution of Wealth" tonight, 8:00 in the Forsyth Business Auditorium. Rollman, now a native of Waynesville, is known for ideas which formed the seed of the Peace Corps. The lecture is sponsored by the Political Science Association. This is their first meeting of the school year. get away with it much longer." Dr. Combs was not justmak- ing threats of his own. The housing office, with the help of campus policemen, have begun a new strategy to identify those persons making threats. That strategy, of course, will remain confidentiaL "Many schools have caught similar threatening persons," said Combs, "and we will do the same thing in much the same way," "When the university catches someone," he continued, "that person will be prosecuted" There are federal and state laws regarding such threats of bodily harm, both to person and property, as well as specific laws in regard to bomb threats. There are at least 900 wo~ men on campus who would probably welcome both federal and state prosecution of any and all campus bomb threateners. "Though I think most of this on campus is done as a prank," Combs said, "it's a pretty foolish thing to do. To get such excitement at the expense of about 900 people. . . I think that's a little sick." "There's also the possibility of someone getting hurt, falling down the stairs in a rush to get out of the dorm." Though many women in Scott Hall Tuesday morning saidthey weren't going out of the dorm... they'd had enough of prank bomb threats, most did evacuate. There are state laws requiring everyone to leave the building in case of bomb threat. And Dr. Combs reminded the girls that state laws will be obeyed Both for the girls who MUST leave the dorm, and for the "pranksters" who WILL be prosecuted.
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